The shutters closed and the podiums rose once more. Wendy's and Jimmy's picture now joined the portraits of fallen classmates, we took our places and Monokuma began.
"Now then let's begin with a basic explanation of the class trial, during the trial you'll present your arguments on the case, and vote for whodunit, vote correctly and only the blackened will be punished, but if you pick the wrong person, I'll punish everyone besides the blackened and that person will get to graduate" "Alright now let the class trial begin!"
"This trial is really important guys, not only will we determine who killed Bebe, but we may also discover the spy among us" Craig said.
"Craig's right we can't afford to slip up on this one" I concurred.
"Well we aren't going to find her killer by hyping each other up" Eric said. "Let's get to it."
It's starting, the fourth class trial, if we play it right maybe the spy will slip up and reveal themselves. Either way we need to find the culprit whether or not the spy is also revealed.
"I guess what we should figure out first" Tweek began. "Is if Bebe was killed in the computer lab or the gym."
"There was blood in both rooms" Clyde said. "She could've been killed in either of them."
"Wherever she was killed" Token said. "She ended up in the gym." I think I know where she was killed, and the evidence backs it up.
"No that's wrong" I said. "It's true that she could've been killed in either room but I believe that the room where she died is the computer lab."
"What makes you say that" Token asked.
"The blood stains and hair we found on the floor and keyboard" I answered. "Based on the positioning of it, I hypothesize that the killer swung at her from behind, as a result her head hit the table and she was at the very least knocked unconscious."
"I guess the next question we should ask then is why was her guard down" Henrietta asked.
"I think I might have a theory on that one" Eric said. "Bebe's guard was down, because she knew someone was meeting her there, what she didn't know, was that the person she was meeting apparently wanted her dead."
"So Bebe figured that one of us was coming to the lab to talk to her," Tweek started "and given how close we've all gotten recently she felt safe letting her guard down, and it got her killed." Eric's right on this one,
"I agree" I said. "Eric's theory makes sense the monopad we found in the cafeteria proves that much. The monopad sent the message to Bebe saying to meet them there. Sure, the sender had no name but like Tweek said we've all grown close to her she'd have no problem trusting us."
"Yeah and look where it got her" Craig said. "Poor girl didn't even see her attacker coming."
"Wait a minute can I chime in here" Butters asked. "What about the sewing needles we found in her pocket?"
"Sewing needles" Token asked.
"Yeah she had two sewing needles in her pocket, I assumed she had them from when she was working on something but maybe, maybe she didn't fully trust us after all" I answered.
"The sewing needles she had in her pocket" Clyde started. "Why did she have them?"
"She probably had them for self-defense, in case someone tried to kill her" Craig answered.
"But if she had them for self-defense, how did she end up dead" Butters asked.
"She must not have heard her attacker enter the computer lab" Tweek answered, "as a result she didn't have time to reach for her weapon, and was killed."
Craig's right, there's no other reason she would have them besides coincidence, and coincidences mean nothing in a class trial.
"I agree" I said. "Craig's right, it's too convenient that she had them from working on an outfit. There's little doubt in my mind that Bebe had them to defend herself but she didn't sense her attacker in time."
"Ok so we know that she was struck from behind and her weapons failed before they got the chance to be tested" Token began "but where does that leave us? I mean it's obvious who the culprit is at this point right?"
Is it? Token clearly believes he knows the culprit's identity but I'm not so sure it'll be that easy.
"The culprit in this case" he began. "Is none other than Henrietta, her cigarettes were used to burn Bebe's arms post mortem."
"But would she really make it that obvious that it was her" Butters asked.
"I can answer that as well" Token answered. "She placed Bebe in the gym in order to shift blame onto Clyde, the cigarette burns were her fatal flaw." Wait a minute something doesn't add up something that'll prove Henrietta's innocence.
"No that's wrong" I said. "Hold on a minute Token, I think it's the other way around, someone used the cigarette burns to try and pin the blame on Henrietta."
"Explain" he demanded. "The cigarettes that were used to burn Bebe's skin were tossed in the trash can, but there was an ash tray right there, Henrietta, who is an expert smoker knows that throwing cigarettes in the trash isn't proper disposal, if she was the culprit then she would've put the cigarettes in the ash tray out of habit."
"Does the lady in question wish to chime in here" Token asked directing his gaze at Henrietta.
"I told you earlier my cigarettes got stolen two days ago, I turned my back for a minute and they were gone" she answered. "Besides why would I kill her she was the only girl here who was actually nice to me."
"What do you mean" Butters asked.
"Girls always shit talk, guys do the same, it's a fact of life, but Bebe was the only one who actually cared enough to talk to me on a regular basis during both of her stays here, I would never kill her" Henrietta answered making a fist.
I never knew how badly the other girls treated her, and worse her two closest friends are now dead, she's been through enough I believe in her innocence.
"I believe Henrietta, she didn't kill Bebe" I said.
"Well if it wasn't Henrietta then who was it" Clyde asked.
"One way to find out, we need to figure out alibis" I said.
"So where was everyone when the murders happened" Eric asked.
"Butters and Mike had already retired to Mike's room at that point, same with the husbands, Token, and Henrietta" Clyde said. "Eric and I were the last two to go to bed, but I went to bed before him."
"So, in other words" Token began, "Eric was awake the longest." Eric's own words back up Token's statement,
"I agree" I said. "Eric was the last one awake last night, right Eric?" "Yeah I went to bed last, but your leaving part of my statement out" he answered. "Remember I said I saw someone heading towards the stairs, so the question is was that Bebe or her killer. You trying to set me up Mike is that why you didn't mention the figure I saw? I thought you wanted to live well that won't happen if you vote me down because I didn't kill her. However, I do know who the culprit is." It took me a minute to process his statement.
"Wait you do, then tell us who killed Bebe" I said.
"There's no fun in that, we need to determine what she was doing with the Project UA info first, c'mon let's see if we can figure it out" Eric replied. Eric had us hostage at this point, whether or not he was bluffing he's taken control of this debate.
"So, what was Bebe doing trying to delete the Project UA info" Eric asked.
"Was she really trying to delete it" Craig asked. "Or was her killer the one who tried to wipe out the information?"
"Bebe was the only one sitting at the computer based on the evidence we found, could she have been the spy all along" Clyde asked.
"I don't think so; the mastermind has been getting info on us even after Bebe's death in the beginning" Butters answered.
"Then why did Bebe have the information on the computer screen, there's no other plausible reason other than she was the spy all along" Clyde said. There's another option we're not seeing, Butters is right it couldn't have been Bebe.
"No that's wrong" I said. "Think about what information was on the screen, it was the information regarding the traitor that the Project UA people discovered hiding in our midst."
"If Bebe was looking at it then all the more reason to believe she was the spy" Henrietta said.
"No there's something we're not seeing here I think the culprit staged the murder scene as well as the crime scene to paint Bebe as the spy" I said. "There's proof of the staging in the evidence we collected, the delete pop up window on the screen, remember when we entered the computer lab we noticed that someone had been trying to delete the information on the spy but failed to do so. But why would they have failed, I can only think of two reasons why, either the culprit and or spy was trying to get rid of the file, sensed Bebe was coming and ducked out of the way, or waited until after the culprit had killed her and then got the delete prompt on the screen and left it there leading us to believe that Bebe was the spy."
Clyde interrupted me before I could finish, "I'm gonna knock you out of the park!" "That seems a little farfetched Mike, even for you."
"What do you mean Clyde" I asked.
"Here let me spell it out for you" he answered. "You say the culprit went through all the trouble of staging a murder scene? There's no way anyone here would get that complex about their killing. The culprit walked in on Bebe trying to get rid of the info, and then stopped her before she could finish the job, killing her in the process."
"While the evidence does make that a possibility, it backs up my theory even more" I said.
"Your theory is way too farfetched, the culprit saw Bebe going after the files, made his move, and since she couldn't get her weapon out in time."
I stopped him right there, "I'll cut your words!" "Bebe didn't get a chance to fight back remember she was caught off guard, the bruise on her neck from where she was hit is proof of that."
"I guess your right" Clyde said sounding defeated. "Sorry Mike I didn't mean to waste time."
"God you guys are so boring" Eric said. "We're wasting time just figure out who the culprit is already."
"Don't act like you got all the answers" Craig said. "You don't know who the culprit is either."
"That's where your wrong" Eric said. "I'm about to blow this case wide open because I know who the killer is."
"No way, you're so full of shit, like hell you figured it out already" Henrietta said.
"I didn't say I figured it out, I said I already know who the killer is" Eric replied. The phrasing of his words, could it be, he had something to do with it?
"Alright then tell us Eric, tell us who killed Bebe" Tweek said.
"It was you, wasn't it, Eric" I said. The others looked at me as I did. "The message to Bebe, the Project UA information on the computer, the delete prompt, stringing her up in the gym, it was all you." "You summoned Bebe to the computer lab, had the project UA information on the screen, waited in the shadows for her to come in and then took her out, after that you put the delete prompt up to make it look like she was the spy."
Eric started chuckling, "you might've figured the plan out but you wrong about who did it."
"What do you mean" I began to ask but he cut me off.
"Now it's my turn!" "You think you're so smart don't you Mike, well guess what you couldn't be more wrong. New flash asshole I'm innocent."
"Yeah then prove it" I countered.
"Alright fine" Eric shouted. The next words he uttered sent us all into shock and he did it in the most casual tone I've ever heard. "The culprit is Clyde." We all paused for a moment then the shock ensued.
"Wait what, what did you just say" Craig said. Eric's podium moved forward and he spoke again,
"I came up with the whole thing and Clyde carried it out, I told him of the evidence I had found that confirmed Bebe was the spy and that in order to save the rest of you we needed to stop her. Then I had Clyde go to his room and wait until I messaged him, I set up the computer lab and waited for Bebe to come in, once that was done I told Clyde to hurry over to the computer lab and just like I knew he would, he saw Bebe at the computer looking at the UA files, I left the pipe outside the door for him and well the rest was history." Eric finished his confession and Clyde's skin turned pale could he have actually done it?
"Your nothing but a filthy liar" Butters shouted "there's no way that Clyde killed her he couldn't have."
"Butters is right" Craig said "Clyde would never hurt her or anyone here."
"I'm with Craig, I think fat ass is the culprit" Token said.
"Mike there's no way Clyde did it why aren't you agreeing with us" Butters asked looking at me. I didn't want to say what I was thinking because I knew how it would go over, but it's possible that Clyde did do it. I closed my eyes and thought for a minute, I opened them and looked directly at him.
"Your face says it all Mike, you believe Eric don't you" Clyde said.
"I think it's a possibility, whether or not it's true has yet to be determined" I answered.
"What" Butters shouted, he looked directly at me "you mean to tell me you believe Eric over Clyde, Eric's lying he killed her."
"But we can't dismiss this just yet" Henrietta said. "Mike's been right before so I'll trust his judgement on this as well."
"Everyone stop right there" Monokuma said. "Looks like your split down the middle again, which means it's time for a team debate, the question of the day is, who's the culprit, on the Clyde side we have Mike, Eric, and Henrietta, on the Eric side we have, Butters, Clyde, Token, Tweek, and Craig. Alright let's get to it!" Monokuma pressed the button and the trial grounds transformed into the team debate layout.
"Eric's lying, he killed Bebe" Tweek said.
"But the evidence doesn't fully convict him" I countered.
"Eric confessed to the deed he explained the whole murder plot" Craig said.
"I explained how it happened, but Clyde was the one who actually carried it out" Eric said.
"Eric is much more suspicious then Clyde we can't trust his word" Token said.
"But the evidence does support the sequence of events that Eric explained to us" I said.
"I swear I didn't kill her, please you've got to believe me" Clyde said.
"I want to believe you Clyde but we can't be one hundred percent sure that you didn't" Henrietta said.
"Mike what's wrong with you how could you believe Eric over Clyde" Butters said.
"The truth is what's important in a class trial not emotions, we must find the truth" I said. "This is out answer!" "Clyde, if you didn't kill her then you need an alibi, did you go anywhere after you left the cafeteria?"
"No, I went straight to my room" he answered.
"He's lying he went to the computer lab" Eric said.
"Like I said I told him about how I knew Bebe was the spy and that we need to stop her. I messaged him and told him Bebe was in the computer lab doing something to the UA files and we had to confront her. I had him get the pipe from the hallway and we could use it to subdue her, at this point I was already in the lab and Bebe hadn't noticed me hiding in the shadows. The door was left cracked open just enough so when Clyde walked in it wouldn't make a sound and then wham! He hit her with the pipe."
"He's lying" Clyde insisted "if you believe him we'll all die, he's the killer not me, he just confessed to being in the computer lab."
"What if I have photographic evidence of Clyde doing the deed" Eric asked. Clyde gasped at Eric's question.
"What do you mean photographic evidence" Craig asked.
"The evidence app can take pictures of evidence as we all know, well I used it to take a picture at the moment Clyde connected the pipe with Bebe's neck" Eric answered.
"Let's see it then, prove it, prove that you have that picture" Clyde said.
"Very well, if you insist" Eric said. Eric took out his monopad and revealed the picture he was talking about. Just as he said you can see Clyde striking Bebe over the head. Everyone gasped and Clyde started to turn pale. "See I told you I had the proof. After that I emerged from the shadows and helped Clyde move the body, she was bleeding from the forehead as a result of where she got hit when her head hit the table, so Clyde put his hand over it to stop the bleeding, he didn't notice when a few drops fell on the floor in the hallway and the stepladder. Once we got to the gym we strung her up on the basketball net and left her there."
"Clyde is this true" Butters asked.
"Of course not, he's lying and I refuse to believe otherwise" Craig said.
"Why would Clyde kill Bebe, he has no motive."
"I told you guys Bebe was the spy, that's why he did it" Eric said.
"But can we really trust Eric" Tweek asked. "He's the most suspicious out of all of us."
"He's lying I swear, I wouldn't kill Bebe you have to believe me." Clyde said. I don't want to believe he's guilty but the evidence is too damning.
"With this your fate is sealed" I said. "Clyde, while I do believe that Eric is the one who came up with this whole plan, you're the one in the picture who killed her." "Bebe might have been the spy, but that doesn't mean she had to die and Eric's photo is too strong to ignore." "I'm sorry Clyde, here let me go over it again and we can finally end this once and for all."
I didn't want to, I'm pretty sure Clyde was a victim in all this as well but sparing him meant the rest of us would die. I didn't want that and I knew deep down Clyde didn't want that either.
"The truth of the case is revealed!" "It was late last night; Eric and the culprit had been talking and Eric told them that he had evidence Bebe was the spy in our midst and that he had a plan to subdue her but he needed the culprits help to do it. The culprit believed him and so the pieces had begone to move into place. Eric used the extra monopad to contact Bebe and lure her to the computer lab, but before she arrived he placed a pipe next to the door and hid in the shadows of the lab. Bebe walked in and saw the UA files on the computer, she probably began reading them.
At this point Eric had already got the message to the culprit that Bebe was in the lab and that he needed the culprits help in order to capture her. The culprit got to the door and saw Bebe checking out the files, to them seeing Bebe messing with the files was enough evidence for them. The culprit grabbed the pipe snuck up behind Bebe and whacked her with the pipe. The culprit didn't realize their own strength and as a result killed Bebe.
As this was happening Eric took a snapshot of the culprit striking the killing blow, then, emerging from the shadows, he offered to help move the body to make it impossible to figure out who killed her. When they moved her to the gym, Eric used the cigarettes he stole from Henrietta to make burn marks on Bebe's arms thereby implicating Henrietta in her murder. Once the damage was done they hung the body from the net, threw out the cigarettes.
You were led on and tricked into this crime weren't you, Clyde Donovan the Ultimate Athlete." Clyde didn't say anything nor did Eric, in fact that whole room was silent.
Finally, Clyde spoke up, "Monokuma let them vote will ya?"
"Sounds good to me, alright people you know the drill cast your votes and send Derek Jeter here to his doom" Monokuma responded. Our consoles lit up and with a heavy heart I voted for Clyde, I knew something was amiss about this whole case and I was gonna find out what it is. "Who will be chosen as the blackened, will you make the right choice or the dreadfully wrong one." The wheel appeared next to Monokuma and began spinning and much to our dismay landed on Clyde.
"Four for four you got it right again, Clyde in the computer lab with a metal pipe."
"Alright now that it's all over Clyde, please explain everything that lead up to this" I asked.
"Eric had come to me the day after Bebe was brought back, he had told me that he had discovered that Bebe was the spy, that when she was resurrected she was under Monokuma's control. I didn't believe him at first but after we talked for a while it started to make sense and he claimed to have the evidence to back it up.
Then the night of the murder after you all went to sleep he said that he overheard Bebe talking to someone and it sounded like Monokuma, once I got the message that she was in the computer lab I knew I had to do something, I didn't want to kill her, the goal was just to capture her and make her confess to the crime of being the spy using Eric's evidence."
"Well I thought that Eric tricked you but if he has evidence we need to see it" I said.
We all looked at Eric who was looking at the ground. Then he started laughing, and he got louder and louder.
"I can't believe you fell for it, Clyde you idiot Bebe was never the spy I just used you to get her out of the way, the less competition the better" he said.
"Wait you mean" Clyde began, "Bebe wasn't the spy?!"
"Nope she wasn't working for me at any point in this game" Monokuma said. "Basically, you killed and innocent person Clyde." Clyde fell to the ground his eyes widened he began to cry.
"Eric you've gone too far this time" Butters said.
"Hey don't blame me, Clyde's too gullible for his own good" Eric countered.
"But why, why go through all this, shaving down the competition couldn't have been your only reason" Craig said.
"Your right there is another reason" Eric began, "I was bored!"
"What" I asked, "that's the reason you were bored?!"
"Yeah pretty much so I figured Monokuma already got rid of Jimmy, might as well have him get rid of Clyde too he's become to annoying anyway." All of us were shocked and Clyde was crying at this point. It was then that we realized what we were truly dealing with, a full blown sociopath. "Well Clyde nice knowing you, enjoy the afterlife" Eric said in a nonchalant tone. Clyde's faced turn from hysteria to depression he knew what was about to happen, he didn't deserve it but Monokuma didn't care for loopholes, Clyde killed Bebe and got caught which means he is going to be punished.
"Now then I've prepared a very special punishment for Clyde Donovan the Ultimate Athlete, an ode to a classic" Monokuma said.
"Clyde, know this before you go, I'll make him pay for this, I promise" Butters said.
"Thanks Butters" Clyde said, "knowing that makes me less terrified about my imminent death." "Goodbye everyone, you guys are the best friends I've ever had. Eric I'll see you in hell."
"LET"S GO IT"S PUNISHMENT TIME" Monokuma shouted. Monokuma banged his gavel on the red button and the screen behind him lit up, "Clyde has been found guilty, commencing execution." Clyde fell through a trap door into the execution chamber which had been redesigned to look like a baseball field, Clyde was chained to a steel beam at home plate and the pitcher's mound had a fifty caliber machine gun filled with baseballs. The screen played the graphic "Strikeout! Ultimate Athlete Clyde Donovan's Execution: Executed."
Monokuma sat in the chair on the gun and started firing baseballs towards Clyde at a very high velocity. The external wounds were graphic blood was coming out of him left and right until the last ball crushed his Adam's apple and with his last breath coughed up a pool of blood. His body just hung there and then the screen went black.
Tweek and Butters started to cry and Token and Craig couldn't bear to look, they had lost one of their friends, one of our friends, and the person who was truly responsible was getting away with it. Eric began to walk to the elevator, not a care in the world.
"Hold it right there you son of a bitch" Butters shouted. "You're not going anywhere!" He charged at Eric prepping a right hook and taking a swing. Eric blocked him and fired a right jab into Butters's eye knocking him to the ground. "You, you will pay for this I promise you."
Eric didn't say a word he just walked into the elevator and left the chamber. The rest of us gathered around Butters and I kneeled beside him.
"Babe are you ok" I asked. He didn't respond at first but when I put my hand on his shoulder he shoved it away.
"Don't touch me" he said, "you're just as bad as he is you should've sided with Clyde, if you did maybe he wouldn't be dead right now!" Butters got up and headed for the elevator. "I'm going to my room, I'll see you guys later." Butters left the trial chamber leaving only the five of us behind.
"Hey Mike don't worry about it alright" Craig said. "He'll get over it he just needs time to cool off. In the meantime, we have some fallen classmates to mourn." Craig helped me up and the rest of us left the chamber. The ride down the elevator was somber and quiet no one said a word the only sound you could hear is Tweek's crying. The elevator reached the ground floor and the two husbands helped me back to my room, the day was only half over but no one wanted to do anything else.
I didn't leave my room for the rest of the day, I didn't want to, was Butters right am I the reason Clyde's dead? If we didn't vote for him wouldn't we have all died? There are so many questions left unanswered and now only seven of us remain, if Bebe wasn't the spy and that was just Eric's lie to get Clyde to murder, then does that meant the spy is still among us? So many questions that need answering but at the very least I should try and sleep tonight.